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A reference book that comes out once a year and offers facts and statistics about current events and trends

Antonym

A word that means the opposite of another word, such as: tight/loose, go/stop

Atlas

A book that contains maps and geographical information about the world

Autobiography

A passage in which the author writes about his or her own life

Biography

A passage written about the life of a person who is usually famous

Boldface (boldprint)

A name for text that appears bold, or darker than other text

Captions

text organizers that appear under pictures and tell you what to pay attention to

Cause

why something happens

Caus-and-Effect charts

Graphic organizers to help you keep track of cause-and-effect relationships

Cause-and-Effect Relationships

A structural pattern that shows what events caused or were caused by effects

Characters

The people or animals that you read about in stories

Chronological Order

The order in which events happen

Compare

To find similarities between two or more things

Conclusion

A decision about why things happen the way they did based on details

Conflict

A struggle between characters or forces in a story

Contemporary Fiction

Stories that are set in the present

Context Clues

Words or phrases near an unfamilar word that help you figure out the new word's meaning

Contrast

To find differences between two or more things

Diagrams

plans, sketches, drawings, or outlines designed to help the reader understand difficult information

Dictionary

A reference book listing words in alphabetical order with their pronunciations and all of their definitions

Dialogue

A conversation between two or more people, such as that between characters in a drama or narrative

Effect

the result of a cause

Encyclopedia

A reference book of many volumes that contain articles about different subjects. The volumes are arranged alphabetically

Evidence

Something that is helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment

Fable

A short tale that teaches a lesson. The characters in fables are usually animals who act and talk like people. Also called a folk tale

Facts

Things that actually happened or are really true

Fiction

Made up stories and poems

Figurative Language

Language used in writing to create imagery. Figurative language often appeals to the senses

Folklore

Stories that explain something about nature or humans. These stories may have animals or mythical gods as characters.

Free Verse

Poetry that does not rhyme or follow a pattern

Glossary

A listing of vocabulary words within a book. A glossary is in alphabetical ordr and provides a brief definition of key words from the book it is in

Graphs

Visual organizers that show information at a glance

Graphic Features

Text organizers that show information visually

Graphic Organizers

Visual tools to help you understand what you read

Graphics

Text organizers that are a good way of presenting information about numbers

Heading

Text organizer that appears at the beginning of a passage that usually reveals the passage's main idea

Historical Fiction

Stories that are set in the past and based on true events

Homonyms

Words that sound the same, but have different meanings

Identifying Sources

To fugure out where to find more passages like the passages alread read

Illustrations

Pictures that accompany a story to help the reader visualize a scene

Index

A listing of topics that are covered in a book. The topics are listed in alphabetical order

Italics

A name for text that appears slanted to the right

Main Idea

The most inportant idea that an author makes in a passage

Maps

Describe the location of someplace in reference to something else

Meter

The rhythm that words make as you read a poem

Milestone

An event marking a signficant new development or stage in aperson's life

Mysteries

Stories that are about puzzling crimes to be solved

Narrator

The person telling the story, like a speaker

Nonfiction

Teaches you facts and gives you information about real-life people, events, and places

Opinions

Beliefs that are based on individual's judgements

Outines

Graphic organizers to help you organize information and rememeber what you read

Patterned Poems

Poetry in which the poet may repeat certain phrases to give the poem a nice rhythm

Plot

What happens in a story

Plot Development

The individual events that make up a story

Prediction

A guess about what will happen based on facts

Prefixes

Groups of letters or short words added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning

Reference Materials

Books like dictionaries and atlases, that give you information about a subject

Resolution

The event or manner in which a conflict ends

Rhymed Poems

Poetry in which the last word or differnt lines rhyme with each other

Root Words

The base words that you can change by adding prefixes or suffixes

Scanning

Reading quickly to look for specific words or phrases

Science Fiction

Stories that have elements of fantasy based in science

Setting

The time and place in which a story occurs

Skimming

Reading quickly to get a general idea of a passage's content

Sources

Materials, like books and magazines, that provide the information in reports

Stanza

A group of words within a poem

Structural Patterns

How authors organize the information they present in a passage

Subheadings

Heading within a passage that break the paragraphs up into groups

Suffixes

Groups of letters or short words added to the end of a word to change its meaning

Summarize

To sum up the most important ideas in the passage

Supporting Ideas

Pieces of information that support your central idea

Survey

A gathering of a sample of data or opinions considered to be representative of a whole

Syllable

A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a bowel, dipthing, or syllabic cnosonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants

Table of Contents

A table or listof topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found

Text Organizers

Features that authors use to make it easier to understand what you are reading

Thesaurus

A reference book that provides a list of synonyms and antonyms for a given word

Timelines

Graphic organizers to help yo keep track of teh order in which wvents take place

Type Styles

Text organizers such as italics and boldfaced letters that can make yo pay attention to unfamiliar or important words